It has been awhile since I have posted.  A lot has been going on.  I know we all say that but I literally mean it.

 I lost my only nephew on August 13^th, 2009 because of someone’s stupidity.  It was his 21^st Birthday.  Life was just getting started for him. He was at his apartment with his roommate and his roommate thought that it would be cool to bring out a 22 rifle and start waving it around at people.  My nephew told him to put it away several times but the kid said “No it’s Cool, It’s on safety” and pulled the trigger.  It hit my nephew in the back of the head. From what we have been told, he survived the ambulance ride but was pronounced dead when they arrived at the hospital.

We can’t get any clear answers about anything because the kid who shot him is the nephew of the chief of police here where we live.  Nor has anything happened to the kid.  They are trying to rule it as an accident and sweep everything under the rug like nothing ever happened. The sheriff, of course, is the person who releases information to the press so at first they were trying to make it look as though it was just as much my nephews fault. Our local radio station was putting it out that they were both “playing around” with the gun when it disengaged.  There was another kid there who witnessed everything and wrote a statement about what happened.  My nephew never had his hands on the gun so we called the radio station and raised hell so they changed it to “Timmy Holbrook was holding the gun when it disengaged and fatally struck Joshua O’Conner.” 

So help me he will pay for what he did.  Accident or not he is old enough to know better than to play with guns.  It’s an accident when a 5 year old plays with a gun and shoots and kills someone.  It’s ignorance when someone his age does it.  I can’t help but to be pissed.  I live in a small town and as with any small towns the police for the most part are corrupt.  But it doesn’t matter to lawyers who your family is so Justice will be served before this is all over with.  I will try to keep all of you updated.  My OH family has been here for me when no one else has…..